hypocrisy
‘pretence to virtue’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. hipocrisie, hypocresie, hypocrisie < O.F. ypocrisie < La.Lat. hypocrisis ‘hypocrisy’ < Attic Gk. hypokrisis ‘acting on the stage; pretense’ < hypokrinesthai ‘play a part, pretend’ < Gk. hypo ‘under, beneath; up from under; toward and under’ + krinein ‘to sift, decide’ < hipoh < upo < Tamil uppu